[TheeBadOne]

Two hunters who have hunted together for 30 years went out again for deer hunting. One shot the other in the chest killing him................:(

[TallPine]

And how are we supposed to respond to this little tidbit ...?

[Carlos Cabeza]

A tear on the cheek of freedom................At least he died doing what he and his friend loved to do.

[Lennyjoe]

Its unfortunate to hear news like that.

Its not uncommon though. You see it every year in the news. People need to learn how to control their weapons and to make sure what they are shooting. I have been mistankenly shot at once and I wasnt happy about it.

If it was a friend of yours, my condolences.

[Edward429451]

It'd be really cool if you ever came up with some good news, TBO. I think you have some sort of fixation with death and trauma. Probably unhealthy to dwell on it so much...:confused:

[shermacman]

Here is a story that you will not read in the papers:
For eight days this October a 35 year-old man and his 68 year-old father went into the back woods of Western Maine. They packed in all their own gear, tents, sleeping bags and food. They bow hunted for the entire time, getting close to a couple of deer on several occasion but never able to make a clean kill. Didn't matter. The weather was perfect New England Fall. They had a great time. They will do it again for as many years into the future as they can.
Oh, no one shot any people either....;)

[Double Naught Spy]

"A tear on the cheek of freedom................At least he died doing what he and his friend loved to do."

I don't think so! I sure it was his first time to be killed by his friend and that it was not something he loved to do.

A few years ago, a professional free climber out west went on an afternoon climb and went he didn't return, it was feared he had falled. He had, and he was found 2 days later, very dead.

At a memorial, a friend noted how he died doing what he loved most...and my thought was, "And the guy loved plummeting to his death?"

He may have been doing what he loved to do, either the hunter or the climber, before being killed in what has to be stupid events. Is 'accident' in these stories other words for 'idiocy' and 'negligence'?

[toro]

You know there could have been more to what happened. I guess the police would look into the situation. They could have had a falling out even after 30 years of hunting together. People who are married for 30 years often get divorced.

I wonder if he was interested in the dead man's wife? I really believe that a lot of hunting accidents are people getting rid of someone they have wanted out of their life for a long time. You just never know.


Mrs. Toro


John 19:24
They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, they parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.
Psalm 22:18
They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

[RustyHammer]

..... more than once!

[TheeBadOne]

Deer hunter accidentally shoots and kills his best friend

A hunter north of Two Harbors, Minn., looked through his rifle scope twice Wednesday morning before firing at the deer he thought he saw 180 yards away. Instead, the man mistakenly shot and killed his best friend.

Peter Josie, 45, of Zimmerman, had just left his deer stand and started to walk toward his hunting buddy, who was sitting in a second deer stand about a mile away, according to the Lake County Sheriff's Office.

"The shooter heard some ruffling and he thought he saw some horns," said Vicki Hughes, whose sister Debra was married to Josie. "It's devastating," she said. "I do know that the weather up in Ely, it was snowing really bad. Pete's stand was a mile away. Why he was close by I don't know."

The shooter told police that he thought he saw horns, but they turned out to be the branches of a tree near Josie, Hughes said. The shooting remains under investigation, according to a Lake County Sheriff's Office news release. Josie's relatives say they have been told it was ruled accidental.

The man who shot Josie has not been identified by police. Family members refused to name him, saying they wanted to save him further anguish. Vicki Hughes said the shooter and Josie, a union pipefitter and father of three children, have been friends since junior high school. They hunted deer together for years in northern Minnesota, she said.

"He's not taking this well at all," Vicki Hughes said. "He's pretty emotional."

The shooting underscored the danger of hunting, even for the safest hunters, family members said Thursday night. Josie was wearing a standard blaze-orange jacket and was an experienced hunter.

"They were very careful," said Peter's brother-in-law, Dan Taylor. "This is what's so hard about everything. I've deer hunted for 25 years. Someone who doesn't hunt might think 'How can you guess it's a deer?' It's hard to imagine unless you're a hunter and you're out there all the time."

A memorial fund has been established for the Josie family: The Peter Josie Fund, Liberty Savings Bank, 209 Rum River North, Princeton, MN 55371.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1405/4211802.html
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[Carlos Cabeza]

I hunt a lot. I have many friends that I hunt with. I love to be outdoors and feel the crisp fall air on my face. For me there is no other activity that gives me a sense of being one with nature. "IF" there should ever be an accident, ( I wouldn't call it that ) my family has explicit instuctions that; There will be no news coverage, We aren't going to sue ANYBODY, There will be no civil case brought against the perpetrator. Everyone in my family shares the joy I feel when I go hunting. Therefore it is understood that there will be no repercussions for my "accidental" death while I am hunting.

Your opinions may differ and that's OK too ! :cool:

[TallPine]

Someone who doesn't hunt might think 'How can you guess it's a deer?' It's hard to imagine unless you're a hunter and you're out there all the time."
Total BS ! :cuss:

If you can't tell if it's a deer or a person, you sure as heck can't tell what part of the "deer" you are aiming at. Do these guys just go around shooting at any patch of hide that they think they see through the brush?


#4: BE SURE OF YOUR TARGET

[FPrice]

It's kind of coincidental but I just found a copy of "ROAD & REC" The Air Force of Occupational, Recreational, and Driving Safety, Fall 2003 on my desk. I wondered why I had kept it so I looked through the articles and found one entitled ""Tis the Season To Be...HUNTING". One part caught my eye.

"Hunting is one of the safest sports in terms of the ratio of people involved to people injured or killed. However, due to the nature of the sport, most accidents have drastic results."

The rest of the article was a summary of suggestions and behaviors to maximize your hunting experience and minimize the chance of problems.

Lately the Air Force has had several articles in various publications which seem to promote and thereby support firearms ownership.

[TheeBadOne]

If you only THINK it's a deer, don't shoot.
Comes as close to covering it as I can think of.